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Title:Lynch Law and Labourers; the ICU in Umvoti, 1927-1928
Author:Bradford, HelenISNI
Year:1984
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:11
Issue:1
Period:October
Pages:128-149
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:labour history
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
Law, Human Rights and Violence
History and Exploration
Labor and Employment
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636549
Abstract:The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union originated in 1919 as a trade union for black dock workers. During the mid-1920s, branches mushroomed in South African country towns; Africans in the reserves and on farms flocked to join. This article describes the ICU-branch in Greytown (Umvoti district, Natal Midlands) and shows how the ICU was able to achieve mass support in Umvoti: by meshing nationalist (Zulu) aspirations with the class concerns of rural blacks undergoing proletarianisation. Notes.
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